Our big vacation is over. We still have another little one next week. Travel while it's still possible has been our motto. Taking the kids and husband out to see the Rocky Mountains. If Peak Oil is real, a trip like this will become rarer for an East Coast family.
I very much covet the beautiful backyards and grass of Virginia and Maine. Coming home to our hardscrabble grass and tiny yard... bleh. Thank god I love the inside of my house.
And wheeee... good to see our food stores. Other than milk, we don't need anything at the store during our one week at home.
And I am reviewing all the projects I'll be starting in midAugust: rain barrels, compost, building garden boxes, installing more shelves.
Hubby ordered "pannieres" (I might be spelling it wrong), but essentially they are baskets for the bike that fold up. I remember having those on my bike when I was a kid. We called them "folding baskets" rather than some fancy French name. But anyway, when the weather cools off in South Florida -- like maybe Thanksgiving -- I plan to once a week do my daily exercise by biking to the store to pick up just two bags of groceries. It'll make me shop more economically!
And we'll be replacing my less-than-efficient small car in for a much more fuel efficient Japanese car in a month or so. Hubby is hoping that the recent fall in gas prices will make people back off of trading in their huge SUVs for Honda Civics. But I doubt it'll be by much. The price of gas is still double what people were use to a couple years ago.
Anyway, being on vacation was pleasant, and a nice removal from daily life and from in-my-face concerns about the economy. Then I come home to news that our big national bank might be failing. We have well under $100K in that bank, but we'll be moving some money and hubby's paycheck deposit over to a Canadian bank that has branches we can use here. Hopefully our $$ will be safer in an international bank than a drowning-in-mortgage-debt American one.
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